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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, doctors have disagreed as to how long vision is impaired by the sun's glare. Dr. Peckham found from his studies with lifeguards that much of the effect wears off overnight, but in most people some effect persists for two or three days, and in some cases it continues for more than a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Darker the Better | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Nation last week found itself with an issue dear to its professionally liberal heart: freedom of opinion. And, as usual, it made the most of it. In its own pages, the Nation, in effect, charged that the Saturday Review of Literature was suppressing free opinion. The suppression: the S.R.L.'s refusal to print a letter, signed by 84 poets, critics and others, criticizing two articles the S.R.L. had printed last June about Poet Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize (TIME, Aug. 29). The Nation itself printed the letter last week, alongside an article accusing the S.R.L. of everything from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whose Blue Pencil? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...canvassing of merchants in and around Harvard Square recently revealed a considerable difference of opinion on the part of retailers and consumers as to the cause, effect, and future of soaring prices. All stores, however, stressed one thing; there is no coffee shortage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Costs Won't Cut College's Coffee | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...anti-bias resolution includes a recommendation that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities put the law into effect by including it in the official "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations." It prohibits discrimination on grounds of "race, color, nationality, or religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Opposed to Discrimination, Votes to Act Against NROTC Oath | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...loyalty oath, which was first put into effect here this year, requires all Navy men to describe any affiliations they have had with national organizations listed as "subversive" by the Government. Penalty for incorrect statements. on the oath are "prosecution and punishment under the appropriate laws of the United States...

Author: By Robert E. Herzstein, | Title: University Groups Join To Fight NROTC Oath | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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